Every weapon in BioShock 2 is more impressive and more satisfying than its equivalent in BioShock 1. The shotgun is now a double-barreled shotgun. The basic pistol has been replaced by a lethal rivet gun that treats Splicer flesh as scrapyard metal. The machine gun has been upgraded to a turret-sized Gatling gun that couldn’t fit in human hands, let alone be carried by them.
BioShock 2
2K Marin · Feb 9, 2010
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Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster — somehow familiar, yet still quite different from anything ever seen — has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city. It is a Big Sister, new denizens of Rapture who were once one of the forgotten little girls known as Little Sisters, known to inhabit the city's dank halls. No longer a pawn used to harvest ADAM, the dangerously powerful gene-altering lifeblood of Rapture, from the bodies of others and in turn run the risk of being harvested herself, the Big Sister is now the fastest and most powerful thing in Rapture.
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- There's a certain straight-to-DVD feel with this sequel, which constantly evokes the original without ever eclipsing it. But perhaps it's callous to stack it up too harshly against its brilliant predecessor. BioShock 2 houses great combat, an entertaining multiplayer game, some truly standout set pieces, and a story you'll want to see through to the end. Yes, it's certainly overshadowed by the one that came before it, but it's worth experiencing on its own merits.
- 7.0By tweaking the gameplay for the better, Bioshock 2 is in many ways an improvement over the original. Those who've played the original game will find the return to Rapture less engaging second time around, but the secrets the world hordes should be enough to tempt any fan.
- 7.0Bioshock 2 is a good game but it is not a great game; it’s not a Game of the Year type such as the first one was. The game didn’t do enough in my eyes to improve on what made the first game so great. It’s a great time playing as a Big Daddy and it adds an interesting twist to Rapture but more story telling would have been lovely as the story didn’t hook me in like the first did.
- 9.1Anyone looking for a first-person shooter that offers more than flat, stereotypical characters and copy-and-paste supersoldier plots, one that attempts to establish a sense of right and wrong and loops you into the decision making process, and one that's set in one of the most vividly realized settings around should pick up BioShock 2. It's a game in which story, setting, and gameplay are expertly blended to create an experience that's as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
- 9.0In many ways BioShock 2 is a game about refinements, rather than wholesale changes. Combat is better, thanks to the dual wielding, better enemy variety and larger scale encounters; hacking has been simplified, now making use of a timing-based button pressing mechanic that fits far better than the tubes seen in the previous game; and replay value has been enhanced by the sheer number of ways you can customise your character through use of Adam and upgrade stations.
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BioShock 2
i love bioshock franchise. i was playing it when i was in school. like i was the only one who knew english and who wasplaying games for the story. and i love bioshock franchise. as a story it is really good for me. it was better when i was younger, but now i know better storytelling. but i love bioshock franchise. i love it'sgameplay. bioshock 2 was pretty hard, but i was respawning near dying places, and enemy's had same HP as before i die. harvesting little sisters also was hard. i was just lazy to adopt little sisters, and i always harvest them in bioshock 2. in bioshock 1 iwas good guybut harvesting little sisters makes you evil. muahahahahahahah great game <3
While this game is not as great as the first entry its still a amazing game. And personally I think the combat system is the best here compared to the other two games. Bioshock 2 along with its amazing DLCs are another spectacular game that again let's you use plasmids along with some new weapons designed for the giant Big Daddys which kinda makes you feel much stronger than compared to the original game. Which is a good thing seeing as this game has those annoying Big Sisters, one the few flaws I think this game has but except that this game is one I recoomend that you play.
while it feels as good as if not better than the original to actually play, the story and all that are a bit tired, especially by the end of the game
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